Margot McGovern

Margot McGovern is an Adelaide-based YA and horror author. Her debut novel Neverland was shortlisted for the Text Prize and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. Her second novel This Stays Between Us is inspired by 90s slasher films and was released in March 2025. Margot's short fiction appears in issues of The Dark and the Aurealis Award–shortlisted anthology Hometown Haunts. She has a creative writing PhD from Flinders University and is a former member of the LoveOzYA Committee.